Pandemic Fears Support Corporate Takeover of Global Food Supply

The traditional analysis says pandemic warnings are used to bolster vaccine sales. Not this time. The real agenda here is about controlling our
world's food production - handing the reins over to corporate industry - and justifying factory farms as essential "biosecurity," not pushing
vaccines. Every news report I've read on the issue makes it real clear.

But factory farms create new diseases and make old diseases resistant to antibiotics and anti-virals. Hmm.

FAO has issued a new warning to the international community that the H7N9 and H5N1 avian influenza viruses continue to pose serious threats to
human and animal health, especially in view of the upcoming flu season.

…"Factory farming systems contribute to disease outbreaks in several ways: …They keep animals in cramped and often unsanitary quarters, providing
a breeding ground for diseases; they feed animals grain-heavy diets that lack the nutrients needed to fight off disease and illness; and many CAFOs
feed animals antibiotics as a preventative, rather than a therapeutic, measure, causing the animals--and the humans who consume them--to develop
resistance to antibiotics."

For years, the public health community has warned
about the risks of intensive livestock confinement. In 2003, the American Public Health Association called for a moratorium on concentrated
animal feeding operations. In 2008, the Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production, which included a former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture,
concluded that industrialized animal agriculture posed “unacceptable" risks to public health. A key recommendation was the phasing out of extreme
confinement practices such as gestation crates, which “induce high levels of stress in the animals and threaten their health,” the commissioners
wrote, “which in turn may threaten human health."

I'm all about free range animal products. I agree with the poster above though who points out is is the population increase. A need has been created
and therefore these farms are supplying that need. I don't have to partake but that is evidently how they produce the volume they do. In fact, I
almost wish they would do something to end the conditions some of these animals are under (almost - as that is a knee jerk reaction - dont understand
it enough to have a super strong opinion other than it appears to be cruel and a stressed animal isn't a healthy one).

Ok my link isn't a journal but the #2 answer references an expert on what nuclear waste would do if it came into contact with lava. And the core of
the earth is hotter than lava so likely wasn't even a reasonable thing to look up. She says if a nuclear device did come into contact with "lava"
it would just sit there until pressure began to build. So even then...not good.

I added the other two links because they are telling. Basically addressing worse case scenarios, and not justifying in any way that this thing is
okay. I still don't fully get the China syndrome. I guess I should watch that movie at minimum to get a sense of what it is.

I'm going to add this as it seems to coincide with some of what you are pointing out.

In a separate study, other researchers have found that high exposure to swine manure spread in crop fields, along with living near swine livestock
operations, appears to be linked with MRSA community-acquired infections, a type that continues to puzzle the experts.
MRSA is considered a "superbug" because of the bacteria's ability to fight off treatment, including the antibiotic methicillin. It can wreak havoc
in health-care settings such as hospitals and nursing homes, especially among elderly and immune-compromised patients, but it also can occur in the
community at large.

Thanks - important and definitely linked. Also, water contaminated with antibiotics and diseases get into our groundwater and run-off into streams,
rivers and the oceans. Which effectively spreads resistance and helps create new diseases in the wild.

Marie Gramer, a veterinarian at the University of Minnesota, said enclosed farm buildings offer "biosecurity" from pathogens carried by wild
animals, including birds and wild pigs.

How can a veterinarian not point out the complete lack of sunshine and fresh air for the enclosed animals? I've seen a super dairy operation rise
across the road from a friend's place and the water table was soon contaminated. Same thing with where I used to live when a large pork super farm
came on the scene. Is it really a demand for the products, or some people just wanting to earn more money? I've seen far too many news reports of
farmers having to destroy livestock because the demand was not there and they couldn't afford to keep feeding them.

I know there's more to it than that, but it needs some kind of more honest review. I just do not trust anyone's expert biased opinion on this any
more when greed is so much in the forefront of motivation. I am lucky to be able to buy locally produced meats every few months or so. I became so
ill on a frozen packaged chop that I will only buy fresh from the small farm now.

I don't even like pork but noticed at the grocery store the prices were outrageous. So I wanted to see why this might be. Part of the reason appears
to be this virus.

"The 2014 pork production forecast has been tempered by continuing reports of porcine epidemic diarreah outbreaks". www.usda.gov...

This virus (swine influenza), is said to spread the oral/fecal route and is not harmful to humans. It also spread through piglets who are suckling
or who are still unborn (it appears 100% in this study were inflicted with this if very young). The study below found new DNA strands and therefore
new strains so it becomes impossible to treat. This isn't necessarily new news but coupled with the statement of high reports of this disease in the
USDA report, it's concerning.

Maybe it's too late for the government to control overcrowding and bad practices. If this stuff is as contagious as the study shows it to be - across
the board, they would pretty much have to catch it before symptoms appear in a billion pigs and isolate. I do hope they aren't slaughtering and
selling these sick pigs.

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